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Sarah Walker introduces the third recital in a series of concerts featuring highlights from Welsh pianist Ll欧r Williams' major exploration of Chopin's music. Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 2021, cellist Natalie Clein joins Ll欧r to play two contrasting works by Chopin. The Polonaise brillante was written when Chopin was a teenager, with the more substantial Sonata in G minor begun some 16 years later, in 1845, its protracted composition relating at least in part to his poor health. He wrote the cello sonata for a talented cellist friend of his, August-Joseph Franchomme, and they performed it together in 1848. It's a work with plenty of light and shade, with a contemporary likening it to "a wild forest lit up by occasional shafts of sunlight".

Nocturne in B major, Op 32 no 1
Ll欧r Williams, piano

Polonaise brillante, Op 3 for cello and piano
Natalie Clein, cello
Ll欧r Williams, piano

Sonata in G minor, Op 65 for cello and piano
Natalie Clein, cello
Ll欧r Williams, piano